<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Under Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), a large number of Crop Cutting Experiments (CCEs) were conducted by Odisha State for Kharif Rice in the year 2016 and 2017. The present study was carried out to examine the quality of the performed CCEs using statistical methods and Remote Sensing (RS) technique. Total 24389 and 34725 CCEs were conducted. After removing outliers, 22083 and 26848 CCE points were analyzed for the year 2016 and 2017, respectively. Multi-date RISAT-1 (2016) and Sentinel-1A (2017) satellite data were used for generating the Kharif Rice crop mask, which was used to get NDVI and NDWI values for Rice pixels, from MODIS VI products. The values of these indices were divided into four strata from highest A, followed by B, C, and D (Lowest Value) based on the range (minimum and maximum) of values. The CCE based yield data were then divided into four yield strata of equal proportion. Yield and RS (NDVI+NDWI) based strata were combined to examine whether the CCE Points having high yield fall under good NDVI zone or vice versa. The results showed that there was strong match between CCE strata and the vegetation index strata in both the years. Therefore, it could be be concluded that RS based indices have the capability to assess the quality/accuracy of CCEs. Furthermore, the large variety of information available with CCEs such that crop variety, crop condition, water sources, stress conditions etc., can be used as input parameters to train any model to predict better results.</p>

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The present investigation conducted field trial during 2017-18 at research orchard of Horticulture, collage of agriculture Gwalior in sandy loam to clay loam soil. The influence of adventitious roots and survivability on air layers of Guava (Psidium guajava L) Cv. Gwalior 27 with the add of different coloured poly wrappers. The experiment comprising four sources of poly wrappers (White, Black, Blue and Red) were lead out in randomized block design with 3 replications. The result reveled that maximum value of callus formation (0.25mm), rooting percentage (83.73%), no of primary adventitious roots(11.73), no of secondary adventitious roots (38.58), length of roots (4.17 cm),diameter of roots (0.34mm), fresh weight of roots (1.23 g), dry weight of roots (0.49g), survival percent (64.9%), length of shoot (22.2 inches), no of new sprouts (4.22), no of leaves (11.29) was observed in red coloured poly wrappers. The highest value of all parameters was recorded under red coloured poly wrappers.